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Definition of Sutras
1. sutra [n] - See also: sutra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sutras
Literary usage of Sutras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature So Far as it Illustrates the by Friedrich Max Müller (1859)
"These matters are spoken of as generally known from the sutras, and, according
to Hindu commentators, they could only be known from the Dharma-sutras. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The name is frequently applied in a narrower sense to the sutras that treat of
religion, ... The greater part of these sutras fall into two classes, ..."
3. The Yoga-system of Patañjali: Or, The Ancient Hindu Doctrine of ...by Patañjali, Vyāsa, Vācaspatimiśra by Patañjali, Vyāsa, Vācaspatimiśra (1914)
"The opinion in India and in the West that the author of the Yoga-sutras is also
the author of the great grammatical comment upon Panini has not been traced ..."
4. Indian Caste by John Wilson (1877)
"sacrifices are callled Kalpa sutras; and even the Brah- mans themselves, ...
or the sutras of Tradition, which form the Law Books- Varieties of them are the ..."
5. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"All treat of essentially the same subjects, but tach draws its mantra material
as far as possible from its own Samhita. The following sutras have been ..."
6. The Theosophist by Theosophical Society (Madras, India) (1891)
"For the purpose of tracing the history of women in India, we have to divide the
laws of this period into old and new. The sutras first came into existence. ..."
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